SVG
SVG drops in like DXF, everywhere. One rule to know so the cutting table doesn’t surprise you:
The SVG unit is the pixel, and a pixel is 1/96 of an inch. SVG is a screen format: it knows nothing about millimetres. NestorCut converts its pixels to millimetres (1 px = 25.4/96 mm), honouring what the file declares — viewBox, width, height, transforms. A 96 × 96 px rectangle becomes a 25.4 × 25.4 mm part.
In practice:
- an SVG exported from a CAD with its dimensions in millimetres arrives at the right size when the export tool wrote the correspondence — check the dimensions shown on the card BEFORE starting the nesting;
- if the part arrives at an unexpected size, the card’s Scale tool corrects by the exact factor;
- the SVG coordinate system (y pointing down) is flipped at import: your part is oriented as in your cutting software, not as on screen.
Straight segments stay straight: a clean SVG gives parts as exact as a DXF.
